Deterritorialization The concept appears to have been deterritorialized! But even without proper reference, I believe Negri and Hardt were using the terms as derived from D&G's concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterritorialization Deterritorialization is a concept created by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus (1972), which, in accordance to Deleuze's desire and philosophy, quickly became used by others, for example in anthropology, and transformed in this reappropriation. Deleuze and Guattari encouraged this use of their concepts in other senses than that they were "originally created for", since they didn't believe in this conception of an "original sense", which could be more or less related with phenomenology. Deleuze said, for example, that the people who had best understood the Anti-Oedipus were persons that were neither (university) philosophers nor psychoanalysts. He particularly liked a letter sent to him by an origami-maker, who had seen new inspiration in the book Le Pli (The Fold). Deleuze & Guattari's use of the concept Deleuze and Guattari use deterritorialization to designate the freeing of labor-power from specific means of production. For example, English peasants were banished by the Enclosure Acts (1709-1869) from common land when it was enclosed for private landlords. They distinguished in A Thousand Plateaus (1980) a relative deterritorialisation and an absolute one ("Earth"). Relative deterritorialisation is always accompanied by reterritorialisation, while positive absolute deterritorialisation is more alike to the construction of a "plane of immanence", akin to Spinoza's ontological constitution of the world [1]. There is also a negative sort of absolute deterritorialisation, for example in the subjectivation process (the face). _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
